Eat of the tree of the knowledge

I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church, where at least a few of my fellow congregants confirmed the stereotype by believing that Jesus spoke King James English. And why wouldn't they? That language is so sonorous, so stentorian, that it simply fills your head and pushes everything else out. What else would Jesus have spoken, anyway? Some humdrum lingo like Aramaic? That seems unlikely, since Aramaic is not associated with smiting.

I am no longer associated with the Southern Baptists, to say the least, but I still have King James rattling around in my head. Perhaps this is why it does not seem so odd to me that, in French, one says "I want of the coffee" (Je veux de café) and "I change of the money" (Je change de l'argent).

There is a sophisticated discussion lurking here on the difference between universals and particulars, but I think I have had enough of celestial matters for one blog post.